The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 77

But he heard nothing, and so, judging from the impression of the seal and the lid, he thought there must be something precious inside.

Who acts: sire, something · What happens: hear, judge, think, be, impress · To what, where: nothing, impression, seal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sire, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 heard	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 heard	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 judging	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 judging	cc
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 judging	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 judging	punct
9	judging	judge	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 impression	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 impression	det
12	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 judging	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 seal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 seal	det
15	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 impression	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lid	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lid	det
18	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 impression	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thought	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 thought	nsubj
21	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 be	expl
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 be	aux
24	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 thought	ccomp
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 be	nsubj
26	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 something	amod
27	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 precious	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	sire	nothing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	judge	gerund	sire not said here		the impression of the seal and the lid	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	sire			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	must	something		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	impress			the seal		nom impression «cognition transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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